Why Only Us
Language and Evolution
By Robert C. Berwick and Noam Chomsky
"Why Only Us" is published by MIT Press in 2016 - Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA, it has 215 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Why Only Us” Metadata:
- Title: Why Only Us
- Authors: Robert C. BerwickNoam Chomsky
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 215
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: 2016
- Publish Location: Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA
“Why Only Us” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Language - Evolution - Minimalist theory (Linguistics) - Language acquisition - Biolinguistics - Psycholinguistics - Psychological aspects - Human evolution - Linguistics
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 21 x x centimeters
Edition Identifiers:
- Google Books ID: 8eBRCwAAQBAJ
- The Open Library ID: OL26323850M - OL17722512W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 966825973 - 927241552
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2015038384
- ISBN-13: 9780262034241
- ISBN-10: 0262034247
- All ISBNs: 0262034247 - 9780262034241
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"Why Only Us" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Acknowledgments
- 2- Why Now?
- 3- Biolinguistics Evolving
- 4- Language Architecture and Its Import for Evolution
- 5- Triangles inthe Brain
- 6- Notes
- 7- References
- 8- Index
"Why Only Us" Description:
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We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language—“the language faculty”—raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This book by two distinguished scholars—a computer scientist and a linguist—addresses the enduring question of the evolution of language. Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky explain that until recently the evolutionary question could not be properly posed, because we did not have a clear idea of how to define “language” and therefore what it was that had evolved. But since the Minimalist Program, developed by Chomsky and others, we know the key ingredients of language and can put together an account of the evolution of human language and what distinguishes us from all other animals. Berwick and Chomsky discuss the biolinguistic perspective on language, which views language as a particular object of the biological world; the computational efficiency of language as a system of thought and understanding; the tension between Darwin's idea of gradual change and our contemporary understanding about evolutionary change and language; and evidence from nonhuman animals, in particular vocal learning in songbirds. (Source: [MIT Press](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533492/))
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